Trailer: Netflix releases Roma in UK cinemas this November
David Farnor | On 13, Nov 2018
Netflix will distribute Roma in UK cinemas this November, before releasing it online worldwide – and a new trailer gives us a glimpse of Alfonso Cuaron’s masterpiece in action.
A story that chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s, the film is an artful love letter to the women who raised him. Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s – about as different a project to Gravity as it gets.
The movie first premiered this summer at the Venice Film Festival, before going on to take home the Golden Lion for Best Film at the event – placing it at the front of the pack for this year’s awards race.
“A tiny masterpiece,” is how we described the film in our five-star review at Venice, praising it as an “epic with a heart on its sleeve”.
The movie joins a wave of Netflix original films being released in cinemas before they hit Netflix: alongside fellow awards contender The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the film will be available in select cinemas ahead of its streaming debut. We’ll bring you exact details of which cinemas are carrying the movie nearer its release date. That date is Friday 29th November, with the online premiere now set for Friday 14th December.
Here’s the new video:
Roma: Netflix releases ravishing new poster
23rd October 2018
Netflix is warming up its marketing machine for Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous new film. The movie, an achingly personal project for the award-winning director of Gravity and Children of Men, film follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.
The movie first premiered this summer at the Venice Film Festival, before going on to take home the Golden Lion for Best Film at the event – placing it at the front of the pack for this year’s awards race.
“A tiny masterpiece,” is how we described the film in our five-star review Venice, praising it as an “epic with a heart on its sleeve”.
The movie will be released both in cinemas and on Netflix this December, as Netflix steps up its commitment to distributing films on the big screen as well as online. Indeed, this new poster, which emphasises the intimate, moving nature of the tale, is already on display in UK train stations, alongside The Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – both of which screened at the London Film Festival – as Netflix throws more weight than ever behind its best original movies yet. Here’s the ravishing artwork for the film:
Trailer: Netflix’s Roma set for December release
16th August 2018
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma will premiere on Netflix this December, following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The most personal project to date the award-winning director, the film follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.
Cuarón’s first project since the groundbreaking Gravity in 2013, Roma will be available in UK cinemas and on Netflix in December.
Here’s the trailer:
Netflix unveils trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
25th July 2018
Netflix has released the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma.
The new film from the director of Gravity and Children of Men is described as the filmmaker’s most personal project to date. It chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world.
A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amid political turmoil, Roma follows a young domestic worker Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) from Mixteco heritage descent and her co-worker Adela (Nancy García García), also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma. Mother of four, Sofia (Marina de Tavira), copes with the extended absence of her husband, Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofia’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofia quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators.
Produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, the film is show in sumptuous black-and-white, and the trailer promises Cuaron will use those monochrome visuals to interesting effect – the teaser video deliberately doesn’t reveal anything, but nonetheless promises intimacy for viewers.
The film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival and the New York Film Festival in the coming weeks, alongside a host of other Netflix titles, including the restoration of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, plus Amazon’s Suspiria and Peterloo. For more on the Venice line-up, click here, or read on for the video. Roma will be available to stream worldwide on Netflix later this year.
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— Alfonso Cuaron (@alfonsocuaron) July 25, 2018